Shirt



(No Model.) I

G. K. MILLER 85 G. H. CLEVELAND.

SHIRT.

No. 317,833. Patented May 12, 1886.

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UNITED STATES Erica.

CHARLES K. MILLER AND GEORGE E. CLEVELAND, OF CAMDEN, MAINE.

SHIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 317,833, dated May 12, 1885.

Application filed June 19, 1884. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, CHARLES K. MILLER and GEORGE H. CLEVELAND, of Camden, in the county of Knox and State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shirts; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

Our invention is an improvement in orna mental shirt-fronts; and it consists in a special application of the ornamental construction shown in Letters Patent granted to us on the 3d day of June, 1884, No. 299,932. The object is to apply the same form of ornament to an ordinary open shirt-front.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of the shirt with the ornamental construction. Fig. 2 represents the same view with the ornamental piece turned back. Fig. 3 isa transverse section taken on line 00 w of Fig. 1.

The shirt may have an ordinary collar, a, either permanently attached or detachable. The front is open and is connected by buttons or any equivalent devices. The means shown are buttons, all of which, except the upper, engage with button-holes 1 1 in the side or flap (2. This flap may be continuous with the front of the shirt.

The ornamental front piece, A, is made preferably of the same kind of material as the shirt, or it may, if desired, be of another color. It is composed of two or more thicknesses, and provided with ornamental lines of stitching 2 2, and is held to the shirt-front by a line of stitching, 4, upon one side, and at the neck by a line of stitching, 5. It is also stitched across the lower end, and preferably to a point, 6, up the other side. The ornamental piece A has a row of loops or bands running transversely of its middle portion up and down for nearly its whole length. These loops are shown as made of separate pieces and secured between the two parts of the front A, the ends being inserted through openings made in the upper thickness. They may, however, be cut out of the material itself in an obvious manner.

tween the bands may be pulled out or folded to give an ornamental effect. The row of bands or loops is in line with the button-holes, and thus when the scarf is in place it covers and conceals the buttons and gives the shirt the appearance of a closed-front shirt.

lfa simple scarf is used, the upper and lower ends may be turned back underneath. The upper end is shown at d. and may be carried over the upper loop and tucked underneath, leaving the upper end of the scarf more exposed. Obviously, a necktie may be used in the same manner, a longer end being left from the knot and inserted under the loop in the manner explained.

This arrangement may be applied to ladies and child rens-garments, as well as shirts and blouses of the kind shown.

\Ve claim as our invention 1 An open-front shirt having a flap, b, and a piece, A, stitched to the front on one side and around the lower end to a point, as 6, and having also the buttons and button-holes to hold the flap and piece A to the shirt-front, in combination with a row of cross-bands arranged in line with the buttons and buttonholes and covering the same, said row of bands being adapted to receive a scarf or tie, all as set forth.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHAS. K. MILLER. GEORGE H. CLEVELAND. Witnesses:

JAMES S. MCNAMARA, W. L. TYLER. 

